Historical Reserve "Sophia of Kyiv". Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev. Site in Russian and English languages.

Behind the bell tower, among the green trees, gleaming gold dome of St. Sophia Cathedral. Each year, this architectural and historical monument visits more than 4 million tourists. And it is not surprising, because for artistic perfection, beauty, grandeur and scale, it has eclipsed all that was then established in Kievan Rus and Europe. For centuries, Sophia Cathedral was the main shrine of Russia-Ukraine - "metropolitan of the Russian." According to legend, St. Sophia Cathedral was built at the place where Yaroslav the Wise won a decisive victory over pechenegs. In 1037 Prince Yaroslav laid the foundation of St. Sophia Cathedral - the largest facility of the then Kiev.

St. Michael's Cathedral and its cloister. Sights of Kiev - St Michael's Cathedral. Site in Russian and English languages.

St. Michael Cathedral - one of the oldest monasteries in Kiev. Includes destroyed in 1930 and re-built in the mid 1990's, the Cathedral church of Archangel Michael in the style of Ukrainian (mazepinskogo) baroque, as well as a refectory with the Church of St. John the Divine (1713) and bell tower (1716-1719). It is assumed that Michael's Cathedral was the first temple with a gilt top, from which Russia went to this somewhat peculiar tradition.

Museum of Folk Architecture and Life. Kiev, pos.Pirogovo, Krasnoznamennaya. Sights of Kiev - Museum of Folk Architecture. Site in Russian and English languages.

Museum of Pirogovo this architectural and landscape complex in the open. The exhibition area of 150 hectares of all historical and ethnographic regions of Ukraine. Over 300 monuments of folk architecture XVI-XX centuries, were brought here from different regions of Ukraine: middle Dnieper region, Poltava region, Slobozhanshchina, Polesie, Podolia, the Carpathians and the Southern Ukrainy.Muzey was based on the outskirts of Kiev in 1976. Its territory is divided into sectors for temporary and territorial principles. The exhibits presented in Pirogovo, acquaint visitors with the architecture of Ukrainian villages, peasant life and folk art of the Ukrainians.

Assumption Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Sights of Kiev - Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Site in Russian and English languages.

On the high hills of the right bank of the Dnieper rises majestically crowned with golden domes of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra - inheritance Blessed Virgin, the cradle of monasticism in Russia and the stronghold of the Orthodox faith. Pechersk Lavra Monastery was founded in the eleventh century and was built during the next nine centuries. The name "Cave" comes from the word "cave", which were found in this territory and in which the first monks settled. Laurus - that honorable title, which was given a very large and important monasteries.

Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Kiev. Sights of Kiev - Museum of the History of WWII. Site in Russian and English languages.

Memorial complex "The National Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941 -1945 years." Located on the picturesque slopes of the right bank of the Dnieper area over the South, where he once housed the old building of the Kiev fortress. Inaugurated on May 9 1981g.Kompleks includes central avenue, which installed along the 76-mm cannon during the war, an exhibition of military equipment and weapons, a sculpture gallery of heroes of the front and rear; bowl "Fire of Glory" (diameter - 16 m), central square with pylons Hero Cities and thematic sculptural compositions.